Glendora Fragua #41614

This new jar is magnificent. The detailed incised symbols and designs are so precise. Swimming fish, circles, four directions, wings, spirals, floral pattern, dots, waves, and geometrics…all so beautifully placed on the jar. It has a lovely shape with the scalloped lip that is accented with painted tan dots. This is a brown jar, not black, and the cream colors, and other browns and tans all look so gorgeous with the brown background. This is an exceptional work of art.

Glendora Fragua

Glendora Fragua was born into a family of potters at the Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico. Her mother, the well known potter Juanita Fragua, was her main inspiration. So at the age of 16, Glendora tried her hand at pottery making.But unlike Juanita, Glendora experimented with the scratch technique of etched pottery called sgraffito. Her designs are created by scratching away part of the polished surface of the pot. She often sets tones (coral, turquoise, onyx, malachite, lapis) into the decorated portions of the pots.They are placed in the pot before firing, removed during that process, and then replaced after the firing. This is by far one of the most difficult of all decorating methods, but Glendora has become a master at it ! Her work shows both a delicacy and sophistication.

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